Agenda

AWS Customer Appreciation Day offers a half day schedule of learning opportunities presented by your peers that is designed for IT professionals and decision makers to come together and learn about the latest AWS Cloud technologies and strategies which can help your organisation realise its' vision for a cloud computing approach to IT.

12:30pm	Registration and Solutions Expo
1:30pm	Welcome Remarks Ed Lenta, Country Manager, Australia and New Zealand, Amazon Web Services
1:35pm	Keynote: INNOVATION powered by AWS Cloud Senior Executive, Amazon Web Services
2:20pm	Customer Testimonials Michael Harte, Group Executive Enterprise Services, Commonwealth Bank of Australia Colin Fairweather, Chief Information Officer, City of Melbourne Dale Freya, Executive Producer, Halfbrick
2:50pm	Afternoon Tea and Solutions Expo
3:20pm	Customer Case Study: Movember Changing the Face of Men's Health in the Cloud David Smith, CTO, Movember Foundation Anthony Woodward, BSc (CompSci), MACS (Snr) CP, Bulletproof CEO	Customer Case Study: Hooroo - A Qantas Startup Bruce Fair, Head of Commercial, Hooroo Stephen Bartlett, Senior Consultant, DiUS Computing	Best Practices for Architecting on AWS Daniel Hand, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
4:15pm	Customer Case Study: Explore New Paths to become a Cloud Enabled Enterprise Lane Patterson, CTO, Equinix Ian Gardiner, CEO, Viocorp	Agile Architecture - Building a "Killer" App on AWS Joe Ziegler, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services David Salajan, Founder, HubWorks Ruby O’Rourke, Founder, HubWorks	Extending your Datacentre with AWS - Using Virtual Private Cloud & VPN to Connect to any AWS Region Simon Elisha, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
5:15pm	Customer Case Study: Manage for Peak Performance with AWS Josh Fraser, SVP Business Development, RightScale Derek Clapham, Engineering Czar & Co-Founder, PhotoMerchant	Customer Case Study: Agile Development with REA Group Richard Durnall, Head of IT Delivery, REA Group	Next Generation Storage for the Enterprise Jeff Putt, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
6:00pm	Customer Awards and Customer Cocktail Party in the Solutions Expo
7:00pm	Event Concludes